Tag Archives | africa

What clean water means to me — from Ethiopia

By on September 30, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Last month, we published a story from Ethiopia about 22 clean-water points constructed in the district of Sasiga. 52-year-old Adde Nadi is one of the many who now enjoys clean water close to home, thanks to the construction of a protected spring just 15 minutes away by foot. Adde Nadi desperately needed this new protected spring because [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

VIDEO: Two years on, AIDS clinic in rural Kenya flourishes

By on September 28, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In one of the most remote places on the planet, you’ll find a small clinic with cutting-edge technology for treating HIV/AIDS and other ailments. The Tumaini Medical Center was built in Marsabit, northern Kenya–a region also known in Kenya as the Northern Forgotten District–in 2009. It was the product of a unique collaboration between Blood:Water Mission, [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Despite famine, there are bright spots in the Horn of Africa

By on September 23, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, World Poverty

This article was originally published by Mission Network News.  To view this article in its original format, visit: http://www.mnnonline.org/article/16260.   Ethiopia (MNN) – Food security has deteriorated for famine-wracked Somalis trapped in their own country, but it has improved for those who have fled to Ethiopia. John Connelly with Food for the Hungry (FH) explains, “The famine is really [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Overcoming the impossible in the dry hills of Kenya

By on September 7, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Sometimes, a problem is so formidable that it’s hard ever to imagine a solution for it. This may have been how families felt in Parkishon, Northern Kenya before FH convinced them they could overcome once very essential problem: access to clean water. Eight hours. That’s how long Parkishon’s women and children used to walk to get [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Striving to help mothers give birth to an HIV-free generation

By on September 2, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

“I think this is one of the best things we could ever do for HIV; it’s one of the most successful prevention methods,” says FH’s HIV/AIDS programs coordinator, Kim Buttonow, MPH. “You can have an HIV-free generation.” By expanding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), children of HIV-positive mothers actually could choose whether to protect [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

DROUGHT: Horn of Africa

By on July 29, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, World Poverty

This blog was originally posted on Food for the Hungry’s Emergency Response Unit blog.  To view this article in its original format, please visit:http://fhrelief.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/horn-of-africa-drought/   It was imminent. The periods between droughts in east Africa had been growing shorter and shorter. The rains have failed, again, barely two years since the skies dried up.Just as [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

270 Gallons of Water for a Cause

By on July 28, 2011 in Stories

It’s Saturday morning and college students (yes, college students) are awake and carrying water for a cause.  Andrew Friedlund, a student at Albright College in Pennsylvania, hosted the second annual “Walk for Water” to raise funds for a new water well in Uganda. Participants carried jugs of water for at least a mile.  To gather [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Celebrating the world’s newest country, South Sudan

By on July 8, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, Stories

It’s going to be one epic party tomorrow as the people of South Sudan bask in their new-found, long-awaited freedom. A tribeswoman prepares for the July 9 celebrations (photo from International Business Times) Some eight million will be celebrating in South Sudan itself, with thousands more spread across the world — refugees who fled their homes during the two-decades-long [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

A Growing Recovery

By on June 18, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Burundi women celebrate after training for better farming practices. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Burundians are returning home after a 12-year civil war. Farm land is now scarce in Burundi. More than 90 percent of Burundians are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. Now, many live without the food they need to survive. The United [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

270 Gallons of Water for a Cause

By on June 16, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, Stories

It’s Saturday morning and college students (yes, college students) are awake and carrying water for a cause.  Andrew Friedlund, a student at Albright College in Pennsylvania, hosted the second annual “Walk for Water” to raise funds for a new water well in Uganda. Participants carried jugs full of water for at least a mile.  To [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }